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Compare 6. I. Royd in Adam Clarke's

Comm, on the Bible, at the end of the Epistte to the Ephasicens.

1 Master of Trinity College, Cambridge,

1820-1841; d. 1846.

GRANVILLE SHARP, ESQ.

RESPECTING

HIS REMARKS

ON

THE USES OF THE DEFINITIVE ARTICLE,

IN THE GREEK TEXT

OF THE NEW TESTAMENT,

By the Rav. Christopher Wordsworth, 2.2.

Auctoribus quidem ad istam sententiam quam vis obtineri uti optimis
possumus;-et primum quidem omni antiquitate.

CICERO.

London:

Printed by J. Hodson, Cross-Street, Hatton-Garden,

FOR F. AND CRIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD; W. H. LUNN,
SOHO-SQUARE; J. COOKE, OXFORD; & J. DEIGHTON, CAMBRIDGE,

1802.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

THESE Letters being merely supplemental to Mr.

Sharp's Remarks*, cannot well be understood without some knowledge of that work. The following extract will supply what is most necessary; and I make it the rather, because I understand that it is already very difficult to procure a copy of Mr. Sharp's pamphlet ↑.

"Rule I. When the copulative και connects two nouns of the same case [viz. nouns (either substantive, or adjective, or participles) of personal description respecting office, dignity, affinity, or connection, and attributes, properties or qualities good or ill] if the article o, or any of it's cases. precedes the first of the said nouns or participles, and is

* " Remarks on the Uses of the Definitive Article in the Greek Text of the New Testament; containing many new proofs of the Divinity of "Christ, from passages which are wrongly translated in the common English Version, by Granville Sharp, Esq. Durham, 1798." [-3a Edi tion London 1803

Penes me T.A.

+ Further information may be obtained by consulting the British Critic for Jan. 1800, I do not know that the work has yet been noticed by any other Review. See also Musei Oxoniensis Fascicul. secund. Londini 1797.

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